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An Australian in China

CHAPTER XXIII
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She clings cheerfully to whichever will support her; but above all she desires the Chinaman.

No one treats her so well as the Chinaman.

If she is capable of experiencing the emotion of love for any being outside her own race, she feels it for the Chinaman, who is of a cognate race to her own, is hard-working, frugal, and industrious, permits her to live in idleness, and delights her with presents, loving her children with that affection which the Chinaman has ever been known to bestow upon his offspring.

The Chino-Burmese is not quite the equal of his father, but he is markedly superior to the Burmese.

The best half-caste in the East is, of course, the Eurasian of British parentage.


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